Weird Facts #3

The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.

If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.

Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun. It has been that way since 1979 and will remain that way until 1999.

The earth is approx. 6, 588, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 tons.

The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.

Popeye was 5'6".

Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.

The first word spoken on the moon was "Okay".

Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.

The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.

Hilary Clinton once said We are the President.

The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.

The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%.

There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.

The Eifel Tower has 2, 500, 000 rivets in it.

"Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.

On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.

The average American eats 2 donuts a day.

The longest word in the Old Testament is Malhershalahashbaz.

The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.

Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17.

It takes the Where's Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing.

2500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties.

A baby is born every 7 seconds.

10 tons of space dust fall on the Earth everyday.

On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day.

Blue and white are the most common school colors.

Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.

The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: What hath God wrought?.

The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: Watson, please come here. I want you.

The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: Mary had a little lamb

The three words in the English language with the letters uu are: vacuum, residuum and continuum.

A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James.

It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if you have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

In a normal life time an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10, 000 pounds of meat.

A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.

America's best selling ice-cream flavour is vanilla.

Americans eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.

Americans eat 134 pounds of sugar a year.

Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.

Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.

You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.

Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.

Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.

India has 50 million monkeys.

By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.

Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.

Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.

You breathe about 10 million times a year.

The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.

Posted: 2:48 p.m. EST June 30, 2006 by me ts